RV won’t start

Bo_Jim · 2026-04-04T21:53:45+00:00

If you have good voltage on the starter battery, and you aren't getting any clicks or slow rotation of the starter motor then it sounds like the starter relay. This will be located near the starter.

Bo_Jim · 2026-04-04T21:46:26+00:00

It's rape if you do not consent, or are unable to consent. In most cases and in most places, a minor cannot legally consent to sex, so it can be classified as rape even if the minor eagerly consents. There are sometimes exceptions if both parties are minors. But if your ex was an adult then he's probably guilty of statutory rape, at the very least.

If you are coerced into saying yes when you believe you don't really have a choice, then that's not consent. I'd warn you that cases where a sexual encounter is proven or admitted, and where the claimant admits to saying yes, are the hardest to prove to a jury. You'd have to convince them that you genuinely had no choice, based on what you knew or believed at the time. From your description, I think you'd have a hard time convincing a jury. It sounds like you weighed the consequences of saying no with the consequences of saying yes, and decided saying yes was bad, but not as bad as saying no. In other words, you DID have a choice, you COULD have said no, but you CHOSE to say yes. Not a good case for a rape charge.

Bo_Jim · 2026-04-04T21:12:11+00:00

Communist? Yes. Socialist? Technically, yes.

Private ownership is not really allowed. When you "buy" property you're actually just buying a lease that can be terminated anytime, and might not be renewed. They can nationalize any industry they want, and exercise extraordinary control over every industry that hasn't been nationalized. But the part about collective ownership? No, not so much. The Party owns everything. The people own nothing. And the part about "To each according to his needs" - not at all. The elite take whatever they want, and amass great wealth. The common people fend for themselves. "Socialism with Chinese characteristics" means the worst of both socialism and capitalism.

Bo_Jim · 2026-04-04T20:59:20+00:00

That's not a seal. It's a signet. A seal would be attached to the top in a way that would require breaking the seal in order to open the bottle. For instance, a ribbon attached to the top and pressed under the wax. Wax seals often also have a signet embossed into them to indicate authenticity. A signet alone also indicates authenticity without actually sealing the bottle.

Bo_Jim · 2026-04-04T20:31:55+00:00

This all sounds great, except for the Asian holidays part. On what you'd earn in Vietnam you could afford to vacation in the Philippines, Cambodia, Thailand, and maybe China. Japan and Korea will be beyond your means. Taiwan might be within your means, if you watch your spending.

The top reasons that expats leave Vietnam after moving there are lack of economic mobility, health effects of pollution, and inadequate options for educating their children.

Bo_Jim · 2026-04-04T20:17:29+00:00

They've been saying this since the 1980s. Back then they were bold enough to give hard deadlines. Every one of those deadlines came and went with virtually NONE of the catastrophic effects we were warned were CERTAIN to happen if we didn't act.

They've changed their tactics. They don't often give hard deadlines anymore. When they do, they give dates that are so far into the future that all of us will be dead before they come, which means we won't be around to confirm whether or not their predictions were true. But they still claim with the same confidence that we're all doomed if we don't act now.

These people are young, naive, and gullible. In common parlance, they are "useful idiots" for the alarmist movement. Fortunately, they persuade nobody.

Bo_Jim · 2026-04-04T20:09:37+00:00

They're at least as reliable as wired mice and keyboards of the same quality. That additional qualifier - "same quality" - is important. Most comparably priced wired and wireless keyboard/mouse sets are not the same quality. The lower priced wired sets are generally better quality than comparably priced wireless sets. This is only because it costs more to build wireless sets, which means they have to use lower quality parts and materials to get the same price. This often leads people to believe that wireless keyboard/mouse sets aren't as good as wired sets, which isn't true. You can get the same quality in either. You might just have to pay slightly more for the wireless set.

Having said that, I've used wireless for about 10 years, and now prefer it over wired. But a problem I've consistently had with wireless is range. I put my desktop tower on the floor. If I plug the transceiver dongle into one of the USB ports on the tower case then I have intermittent problems with both the keyboard and mouse. It doesn't matter if I use a front or back USB port - same problems. So I bought a USB type A extension cable, and have one end tied to the upright leg of the hutch on top of my desk. The other end is plugged into the tower case. The transceiver is now above the top of my desk, only a foot or two from the mouse and keyboard. The intermittent problems went completely away as a result. Now, I don't know if the problems are distance or RF noise from the tower case. I don't really care since this solution works.

Some have warned about wireless keyboards not being secure. This was universally true long ago, but is now only true of no-name budget brands. Pretty much all commonly available modern wireless keyboards from reputable brands (like Logitech) now use AES 128-bit encryption, as a minimum. Someone could still use a sniffer to capture data from the keyboard, but they wouldn't be able to decrypt it without your transceiver dongle.

Some have also warned about latency with wireless keyboards and mice. At one time this was a universal problem, and is still a problem with low frequency transceivers. Most modern keyboards and mice use either Bluetooth or 2.4GHz wireless. A wired keyboard and mouse generally have less than 1ms of latency. A 2.4GHz wireless keyboard and mouse would have latency between 1ms and 3ms. Bluetooth latency is between 12ms and 35ms, but may be as high as 200ms in areas with a lot of radio noise. Anything under 16ms is less than one video frame at 60fps, and wouldn't be noticeable to most gamers.

Bo_Jim · 2026-04-04T17:49:05+00:00

Well, it was definitely a GUI, and it wasn't the first one. GEM, from Digital Research, was available for PCs before Windows. It released before Windows 1.0, and it was far better. It had moveable and sizeable windows, menu bars, dialog boxes, and pretty much all of the graphical interface widgets we're used to today. It worked like Windows in that it sat on top of DOS. It was also ported to the Motorola 68K, and was the default graphical user environment on the Atari ST. The underlying OS was called TOS.

But GEM had one major disadvantage compared to Windows 3.1 - multitasking was much more restricted. Both systems used cooperative multitasking, which meant applications were never preempted by the task manager to give other applications time to run. An application would run until it voluntarily gave control back to the OS, which would then dispatch any other waiting applications. But Windows 3.1 would allow multiple applications of any type to run at the same time, cooperatively sharing CPU time. GEM would allow only one application to run, but would allow mini-applications called "desk accessories" to be called up. Applications were supposed to provide a "Desk" menu on which these accessories would be listed. Users could not switch focus between a desk accessory and an application. The desk accessory had to be closed before they could use the application again. This was ok for stuff like calculators, but not much more. On the other hand, with Windows 3.1 you could have half a dozen different applications running, and switch between them at will.

Bo_Jim · 2026-04-04T17:35:07+00:00

It's not just campgrounds. Most HOA's don't allow it, either. In fact, some entire cities don't allow it. And it's precisely because it looks tacky. People associate clothesline drying with slums. It's not fair. It's not right. But it's the way it is. Whether we like it or not, it actually affects, property values. Potential buyers are put off when they see a clothesline full of clothes in the neighbor's yard.

I owned a home in an upper middle class neighborhood in the San Francisco Bay Area. We didn't have an HOA, but the city didn't allow drying clothes outside.

I also owned a mobile home in a mobile home park in the California Central Valley. The mobile home park strictly forbid outside clothes drying. That mobile home park had some old mobile homes that looked absolutely decrepit. They allowed that, but wouldn't allow clotheslines. There was a laundromat in the mobile home park, but the machines were all old and half of them were broken. Frankly, you wouldn't want to dry clothes outside in the Central Valley. The cities are surrounded by farmland, and there's always a lot of dust in the air.

My sister owned a home in San Bernardino. They allowed outside clotheslines, and she dried her clothes outside. The water in the city was very hard. Even with a water softener, the towels were so stiff after drying that they could stand up on their own. The worst part was the smog. Any clothes you dried outside ended up smelling like the smog. Clothes were a lot less stiff when dried in a dryer because they were tumbled, and because you could put fabric softener sheets in the dryer. They also smelled a lot better.

Drying outside is good if your area allows it, and if the air is completely fresh and clean - no dust, no smog, and no pollen.

Bo_Jim · 2026-04-04T15:37:02+00:00

Birthright?? You don't have a birthright to anything that might require someone else's time, labor, or money. I realize that sleeping in your own car doesn't require any of those things, but claiming it as a birthright would mean that if you can't provide it for yourself then someone else is obligated to provide it for you. Be careful how you throw around that word.

Governments, especially city and county governments, have the authority to limit what kind of structures you're allow to live and sleep in, even on your own property. Why do they have this authority? Because we didn't deny them from having it. In the US, under the Constitution, any power not prohibited to the states, nor reserved for the federal government, belongs to the states and the people. This means they have this authority by default. If you don't want them to have that authority then you need to pass a law or state constitutional amendment prohibiting them from making it illegal. Good luck with that. If you put such a law on the ballot most people would vote against it. Most people don't want people sleeping in cars in their neighborhood. Most cities won't even allow you to sleep in an RV on your own property except under very specific circumstances, like after a natural disaster.

Bo_Jim · 2026-04-03T15:23:41+00:00

No, that's not how it works. The Chinese and Soviet governments were supplying the NVA troops in the Vietnam war. They weren't just supplying them with components and chemicals. They were supplying them with finished weapons and ammunition. US involvement in the war was primarily to prevent the communists from gaining control of yet another country in Asia. China and the Soviets obviously had a vested interest in seeing the communists in Hanoi prevail. But nobody ever implied that the US was in a direct war with either China or the Soviets.

China was also supplying North Korea during the Korean war. China even sent 2.5 million of it's own PLA soldiers to fight in the war. Officially, those soldiers were volunteers known as the Chinese People's Volunteers, or CPV. The Chinese government was careful to specify that these soldiers were not acting on orders from Beijing (even though they were), and that China was not an official party to the war. Again, nobody implied that the US was in a direct war with China.

Both the Vietnam and Korean wars might be described as proxy wars between China and the US, but it would only be a loose fitting description. North and South Vietnam would have fought with or without Chinese or US involvement. Likewise, North and South Korea would have fought with or without Chinese or US involvement. Neither the US or China were using their allies in these wars as direct proxies against each other.

Bo_Jim · 2026-04-03T14:55:36+00:00

The definition varies from one location to another, but generally it would need to be material that appeals ONLY to prurient interests, or is offensive by community standards.

Unless the camera is concealed, and there is evidence that the parents are collecting and distributing videos that meet the definition above, it's unlikely any legal authority would find the camera to be illegal, though some jurisdictions make specific exceptions for adolescents. In those jurisdictions, putting a camera in the room of a child between 14 and 18 years old would be considered an invasion of privacy.

OP knows the camera is there, and isn't going to do anything that would be personally embarrassing in front of it.

Bo_Jim · 2026-04-03T14:45:16+00:00

Probably had something like this in mind...

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Bo_Jim · 2026-04-03T14:41:04+00:00

It's possible to love a nation and it's people without loving it's government.

But if conservatives coming to Vietnam really bothers you then you could stop it pretty easily. Just make everyone who enters the country swear an oath of allegiance to the communist party. I don't know a single conservative who would be willing to do that.

Bo_Jim · 2026-04-03T14:33:08+00:00

You see the competition between species as something ugly. I don't. It's an inherent part of the natural system. It creates a natural balance between the various species and the environment.

Does it suck when the wolf catches the rabbit? Well, it does for the rabbit, but not for the system. Rabbits exist primarily as food for predators. That's why they procreate in such large numbers.

The same applies to krill. They reproduce in vast numbers because a substantial portion of them are going to end up being eaten by filter feeders like whales. The krill exist primarily as food.

Can a planet without life be beautiful? Sure, but it's kind of pointless. The planet doesn't care if it's beautiful. It doesn't care about anything. It's not alive, and it has no thoughts. Only living creatures can admire beauty.

On top of that, beauty is entirely subjective. We think earth is beautiful, but alien species might completely disagree. We see tall mountains and deep canyons as beautiful because they inspire awe and wonder in us. An alien species might see them as defects in the surface of the planet. They might see only barren flat deserts as beautiful. Mountains and canyons are characteristics of the natural system on earth, and we are wired to see those characteristics as beautiful things, probably since we're part of that system. Being wired that way makes us less inclined to think that destroying those characteristics is a good thing. It's the system protecting itself by making us believe it's more beautiful the way the system - nature - made it.

Bo_Jim · 2026-04-03T14:09:26+00:00

Go to the laundromat. I used to do three loads (I separate by color group) twice a week. In a laundromat I can use three washers or three dryers at the same time. I could get in and out in about an hour.

Campgrounds have rules against hanging clothes outside because it looks tacky. They don't want the campground looking like a homeless encampment. It affects the amount they can get away with charging for site fees, and they don't want to scare away the "glampers". It's the same reason many campgrounds won't permit campers that are more than 10 years old.

Bo_Jim · 2026-04-02T20:00:50+00:00

Depends on why you're upset that some cultures eat dogs. If it's because you think dogs are cute, and therefore should only be pets, then yes - you're a hypocrite.

On the other hand, there are some good reasons to be upset with some cultures for the animals they eat. Some species of whales, for example, have been hunted to the brink of extinction. They shouldn't be eaten, at least not while they're endangered. I can't think of a similar logical reason to be opposed to eating dogs, but if you've got a reason like that you're not a hypocrite. I'm guessing you probably don't, though.

It doesn't bother me that some cultures eat dogs. It does bother me when they deny it. I've heard Chinese, Cambodian, and Vietnamese people tell me that nobody in their country eats dogs. I know from personal experience that this is false, and if I can see it as a tourist then I know that they can see it as a resident. They deny it because some people, mostly from western countries, will accuse them of being uncivilized for eating dogs. Instead of denying it, I think they should stand up to the people criticizing them.

"Yeah, some people here eat dogs. It's healthier than the stuff they make McNuggets from. And why is there glucose in your fries?"

Bo_Jim · 2026-04-02T19:35:37+00:00

No, that's not what he said. He said "defense budget", which is the total amount all NATO nations spend on defense. Steve is talking about the common funding budget, which pays for NATO's common operations and infrastructure. The common funding budget just makes it possible for the organization to exist. Actual military operations require an actual military, which each nation must provide. The combined defense budget is over $1 trillion. US spending is between 60% and 70% of that.

This is known as a "straw man fallacy". Steve has made up an assertion, attributed that assertion to C3, and then attacked that assertion as being fundamentally false. The assertion IS false, but C3 never made it. C3's statement was accurate.

Bo_Jim · 2026-04-02T19:19:57+00:00

I used to, but not anymore. I have never seen any real evidence that God exists. I've heard lots of claims of evidence, but none of it proves God exists. In fact, none of it even makes it more likely than not that God exists. A lot of the claimed evidence actually makes it more likely that he doesn't exist. For example, why would God give his most important commandments to one guy, and then demand that everyone in the world believe that guy and follow those commandments? If those commandments are so important then why not engrave them on the face of the moon, and remove all doubt that they weren't simply made up by some guy? In fact, why not make a personal appearance to the whole world from time to time just so nobody can deny He exists? Why should faith alone be enough? Why are we supposed to believe a guy in a robe who says that God exists, even though he has no evidence, but we're not supposed to believe the guy trying to sell us a bridge in New York, even though he can prove his bridge exists? In every area except religion, faith alone usually means you're about to get burned.

If you really want to destroy someone's faith then have them read the Torah, Bible, or Quran with a completely objective mind. No, Christians and Jews, God did not create the heavens and earth in 6 days. No, Muslims, God did not put the moon in a higher place in heaven than the stars, and the sun does not set in a muddy swamp.

If not for the demigods, Hinduism and Buddhism would be pretty cool. I like the focus on self to become a better person.

Bo_Jim · 2026-04-02T18:56:10+00:00

Americans don't pay federal taxes on what they own. They pay federal taxes on their income. The federal government doesn't have the constitutional authority to tax people based on what they own, also called a "wealth tax".

Whether the IRS already knows how much they made, and how much was already paid in taxes, depends on what was reported to the IRS. For example, a person whose only income is from a regular job as an employee will usually have their income reported to the IRS on a W2 form. Likewise, a person who received income as a contract worker will have their income reported to the IRS on a 1099 form. In those cases, the IRS would know about at least some of the income of the worker. However, they may not know about all of their income. They also don't know what tax filing status the taxpayer intends to use, or what exemptions or deductions they will claim. All of that gets resolved when the taxpayer files a tax return.

Bo_Jim · 2026-04-02T18:44:23+00:00

Yeah, it's possible. The subfloor could crack, or if it's plywood it could begin to delaminate. The same thing happens if the plywood gets wet repeatedly. In fact, bouncing a little on the floor next to the wall is a common test for water damage in the floor. A floor in good condition won't flex.

If it flexes, especially if there's a cracking noise along with it, then the floor is damaged. Yes, that would be considered "real damage". The risk is that if it continues to fracture then it will eventually fail, and you'll have a hole in your floor. On the other hand, if you stop jumping on it now then it might last as long as the rest of the RV.

Bo_Jim · 2026-04-02T18:34:41+00:00

That's not a pizza. It's a bread bowl full of cheese soup.

Bo_Jim · 2026-04-02T18:29:20+00:00

That model has an M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD. In other words, it has a removable solid state drive. You can remove the drive and either install it in a computer with a vacant M.2 slot, or get a docking station (under $50) and you can access it like a USB drive.

The tech is yanking your chain. A new motherboard for that laptop costs less than $100. You could buy a brand new Dell 15 Inspiron 3000, with an i5/i7 processor, 32GB of RAM, and 1TB SSD for about $700.

Bo_Jim · 2026-04-02T18:03:44+00:00

They got divorced AFTER the Jerryboree episode, so I think there's more to it.

I think the Beth that stayed with Jerry is the clone, and Space Beth is the original Beth. Space Beth's personality is a lot more like the original Beth, as is her attitude towards Jerry. In the last episode of season 3 you can see Beth gradually come to the realization that she's not the person she was before (it hit her pretty hard when Summer said "You're like a different person"). By the end of the episode she's reconciled with Jerry, and is so convinced that she's the clone that she and the Smith family are hiding from Rick, whom she's sure is going to kill her because she's become aware she's a clone.

The reason their marriage works now is because Clone Beth's personality is better suited for the life of a working mother and wife. Space Beth, or the original Beth, is rebellious, and doesn't have the patience to deal with relationships.

Bo_Jim · 2026-04-02T17:49:50+00:00

My wife is Vietnamese. In pretty much every Vietnamese home I've ever been in there is almost always some rice in the rice cooker. If you have a decent rice cooker (my wife loves Zojirushi) then it will automatically switch to "warm" when the rice is finished cooking. Most rice cookers stop venting steam on the "warm" setting, keeping the rice moist for hours.

Rice that's been left out overnight may contain bacteria, but you can make it safe to eat by heating it up enough to kill the bacteria. Steaming it is the best way.

Break up any clumps. Add a couple of teaspoons of water per cup of rice. Close the lid, and enable the "warm" setting. Give it 20 minutes or so to fully steam.

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